2. I'm part of the consensus ... The bar for "agreement" is set very low, as you'll see here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/20/the-97-consensus-myth-busted-by-a-real-survey/
3. A more truthful read says the scientific community is divided on the matter, especially within climate science itself.
As long as you do not read the cited studies on the site you point to, yes you can make your statement.
In fact I will be using your cited study from now as another proof that there is overwhelming evidence from “peer-reviewed climate research that humans are causing global warming.”
Thank You.
In support of your claim, you turn to Anthony Watts’ Watts Up With That (WUWT) web site. In it he mocks the statement that 97% of scientists believe in global warming. He says for example:
“97% of scientists agree …global warming…blah blah” meme, which is nothing more than another statistical fabrication by John Cook and his collection of “anything for the cause” zealots …..
Just 52 percent of survey respondents answered Yes: Mostly human.
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That’s a long way from Cook’s “97% consensus” lie.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/20/the-97-consensus-myth-busted-by-a-real-survey/To support his claim, Anthony Watts’ WUWT cites an American Meteorological Society (AMS) commissioned survey by George Mason University researchers.
METEOROLOGISTS’ VIEWS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING, A Survey of American Meteorological Society Professional Members
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00091.1WUWT quotes extensively from the abstract and concludes by stating:
“So, the inconvenient truth here is that about half of the world’s largest organization of meteorological and climate professionals don’t think humans are “mostly” the cause of Anthropogenic Global Warming the rest will probably get smeared as “deniers”
That’s a long way from Cook’s “97% consensus” lie.”
Pretty damning stuff if you ask me!Well I guess that it would only be fair to ask what Jon Cook and The Consensus Project set out to measure. They state:
“…the level of consensus in published, peer-reviewed climate research that humans are causing global warming. …. we analysed 21 years worth of peer-reviewed papers on “global warming” or “global climate change”.”
http://theconsensusproject.com/Their full report is here:
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024/metaSo what did the AMS study conclude about this group of respondents? Well here it is:
“Climate science experts who publish mostly on climate change and climate scientists who publish mostly on other topics were the two groups most likely to be convinced that humans have contributed to global warming, with 93% of each group indicating their concurrence.”
Anthony Watts is a charlatan that takes people as lazy fools. BTW: I originally had a much longer and detailed reply using the AMS study, but I dropped it for the sake of brevity. When you reply in a heroic effort to salvage the reputation of Mr. Watts please do me the favor of actually reading the study. There is a lot more there to damn Mr. Watts and WUWT. (Unless of course you quote out of context or selectively parse sentences, which is all that you can do).
P.S. Please be sure to click on several of Mr. Watts’ eye candy adverting banners, I really do not mind having to deal with light weights such as him. I so do want him to stay around.